Chapter 1: General Information

1.1 About this Document

Two documents are of primary relevance for HST proposers: this Call for Proposals and the HST Primer (see Section 1.4.3). The Call for Proposals discusses policies and procedures, and explains how to submit a Phase I proposal. The HST Primer provides a basic introduction to the technical aspects of HST and its instruments, and explains how to calculate the appropriate number of orbits for your Phase I observing time requests.

The Call for Proposals is only available electronically in HTML and PDF formats. The HTML version is optimized for on-line browsing, and contains many links to related or more detailed information, both within the document itself and in other STScI documents. You are therefore encouraged to use the HTML version electronically. Nonetheless, some people may prefer to read a hardcopy, and with this in mind, the PDF version was optimized for printing.

In a hardcopy printout of the PDF version any links to information on the internet will appear as underlined text. You can look up the internet address of the corresponding link in Appendix D.